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duncan

Either I've shaken the world off my back or I've gone senile

About Me

Drumming with:

The Curtain Society
Collapsible Three
Jim Carroll
Shana Morrison

Solo music:

Tripleplus Feelgood

Even stranger:

The Deadites

Photographs: on Flickr

Poster Design: over Here

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My Interests

"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust."

Music:

The Innocence Mission, Red House Painters, Mark Eitzel, REM, Billy Bragg, Throwing Muses, Wilco, The Curtain Society, Band of Horses, Mark Kozelek, Collapsible Three, The Deadites, Paul Simon, Carla Bruni, Jimmy Smith, U2, Catherine Wheel, Elvis Costello, Cornelious, Snow Patrol, Theivery Corporation, Mono, Beth Orton, Hayden, Fiona Apple, Tom Petty, Nick Drake, Don Peris, Spiritualized, AIR, Soul Coughing, Radiohead, Chapterhouse, Nick Drake, Slowdive, Los Lobos, Band of Horses, James Brown, Dj Shadow, Propellerheads, Blur, The Sundays, Jem, Coldplay, Idaho, Hayden, Low, Swervedriver, Grant Lee Buffalo, Stereolab, Looper, Belle and Sebastian, Nada Surf, Jimmy Smith, Leonard Cohen, The Shins, Kitchens of Distinction, Spinal Tap, Morcheeba, The Verlaines, Latin Playboys, Aphex Twin, Aimee Mann, Self, Postal Service, Huck, Lush, Stevie Wonder, Seefeel, Soul Coughing, Lush, Teenage Fanclub, Jurassic 5, Giraffe, Cake, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Smith, Van Morrison, Blur, Sun Kil Moon, Jem, Camera Obscura, Jim Carroll, Rachel Yamagata, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Propellerheads, Bob Dylan, My Morning Jacket, Emiliana Torrini, Venus Hum

Movies:

Hudsucker Proxy, Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing, Big Lebowski, Fargo, All things Coen Brothers and Wes Anderson, Rushmore, Bottle Rocket, Royal Tennenbaums, Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Even Dwarves Started Small, Batman Begins, Incubus, Ghandi,Evil Dead I II III, Babe, Big Fish, Billy Madison, Supersize Me, Being John Malcovitch, Shaun of the Dead, Fight Club, Memento, Magnolia, High Fidelity, Bob Roberts, A Mighty Wind, Best in Show, The Princess Bride

Television:

The Office (us/uk), Seinfeld, Simpsons, Iron Chef, Queer Eye, Biography, Bands Reunited, King of the Hill, Sopranos, Modern Marvels, Mythbusters, Dirty Jobs, Hell's Kitchen, VH1 Classic, Curb Your Enthusiasm, American Idol, 30 Days, Blow Out, Good Eats, everything on HGTV.

Books:

A Prayer for Owen Meany, Think on These Things, The Tipping Point, The Fermata, Walden, Mr. Lunch, Schrodinger's Cat, Nature, On Love and Loneliness, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Naked, High Fidelity, Art of War, Leonard Cohen, In Praise of Slowness, I Seem To Be A Verb, Einstein's Dreams, Good Benito, Blink, Rumi, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, How I Machine-Gunned a Roomful of Record Executives and Other True Tales from a Drummer's Life

Heroes:

I don't have heroes.

My Blog

Merry Christmas


Posted by duncan on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:35:00 PST

what's up

The Curtain Society have started hitting the studio to write and record the follow up to Every Corner of the Room. So far we are jamming, making noise and revisiting some of the ideas that didn't make...
Posted by duncan on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:19:00 PST

Banged In - check out this website

The other day my friend used a phrase that I had not heard before. He told me that he had "banged in" to work. Being suspicious of anything he says I looked up the phrase on urban dictionary and sure ...
Posted by duncan on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:21:00 PST

Great lyrics

I have a bit from this song in my profile and thought I would share the whole thing here. It's a very famous Bob Dylan song, yet I know so many people who don't really know it. Dylan is one of my favo...
Posted by duncan on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:55:00 PST

photography

just a bunch of photos I took. click here
Posted by duncan on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:21:00 PST

I write things

here is a link to some writing. Most of it is one sentence, some of it I complete whole thoughts.click here...
Posted by duncan on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:19:00 PST

I design things

here are a collection of band posters I have designed over the years.click here
Posted by duncan on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:00:00 PST

hundreds of old TCS photos

The Curtain Society has been around a while. Here are a lot of pictures from over the years.click here
Posted by duncan on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:43:00 PST

Shana Morrison - webster and somerville

Roger Lavallee, Ron Mominee, Scott Ricciuti and myself will be backing up Shana Morrison for a couple shows this week. To read more about her you can visit her website at www.shanamorrison.com and at ...
Posted by duncan on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 01:51:00 PST

The Deadites at Ralphs

Hosted By: DSTSWhen: Friday Jul 07, 2006 at 9:00 PMWhere: Ralph's DinerGrove StreetWorcester, MA 01609USDescription:DSTS The Deadites at Ralph's...
Posted by duncan on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:44:00 PST